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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (223761)	1/30/2002 10:57:36 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ann, My understanding is that Starr could only investigate those areas that the AG allows him to. Starr was given phone tapes from Linda Tripp, he then sent the information to the AG, who told him the go ahead and look into it.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (223761)	1/31/2002 5:53:18 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

First, the Whitewater investigation yielded about 18 convictions, which is not too shabby. Second, it is not the purpose of the independent prosecutor to nail someone. If a case cannot be made, they are supposed to make that clear, too. Third, if there were uncooperative witnesses (for example, Susan MacDougal) and possible cover- up, there is only so much the IP can do. Fourth, whatever problem there may have been in the allocation of resources in such investigations was a function of the law creating the Office of the Independent Prosecutor, which was not under normal prosecutorial constraints. It was not a very good law. But as long as it existed, it had to be applied even- handedly, to Democrats as well as Republicans, and it was........